Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Terra McKinish Author: Eudora Welty Genre: Fiction 192 pages, published 1972 Reading Format: Book Summary The Optimist’s Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Joni Renee Zalk Author: Deborah Harkness Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance 561 pages, published July 15, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Book of Life is the third book in Deborah Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy. We follow star crossed lovers witch Diana, who is pregnant with twins, and vampire […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Frank and Lisanne Author: Julie Yip-Williams Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Health 315 pages, published January 8, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary In her late 30’s, young mother and accomplished attorney Julie Yip Williams receives a terminal diagnosis of colon cancer. In a very personal blog, she chronicled her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Valerie Flores Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Foreign 371 pages, published April 7, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary Set as the flashback in a coerced confession of a political prisoner, The Sympathizer tells the story of his escape from South Vietnam in the mid-70’s to his life in […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jonathan Coe Genre: Fiction, Foreign 448 pages, published August 20, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary Middle England follows the lives of several interrelated Brits in the ten years leading up to Brexit: newlyweds Ian and Sophie, whose different world views may imperil their marriage; Doug, a journalist […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Joni Renee Zalk Author: Deborah Harkness Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance 584 pages, published July 10, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary Shadow of Night is book two of the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, an historian of science and medicine. In this book, we follow witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Terra McKinish Author: Stephen Chbosky Genre: Fiction, Young Adult 264 pages, published February 1999 Reading Format: Book Summary The main character in this young adult fiction book is Charlie, a high school freshman with a very high IQ, a sometimes strained family relationship, a friendship with an extremely cool brother and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy 561 pages, published September 10, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary In the middle of the night, twelve year old Luke Ellis is kidnapped from his house in suburban Minneapolis and his parents are murdered. Luke wakes up in a bizarre […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Mike Mendelsohn Author: Mike Mendelsohn Genre: Fiction, Thriller 289 pages, published 2020 Reading Format: e-Book Summary In Six Days: An Eco-Terrorism Fable is a thriller that follows a two eco-terrorists who are destroying ecological harmful sites throughout the U.S. in an escalating fashion. It also follows a washed up, widower with […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Judy Blume Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 402 pages, published June 2, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary In the Unlikely Event takes place in Elizabeth, New Jersey during the early 1950’s when two airplanes crash, killing most of the passengers and explores the impact on the community and […]